Ski The Far Stars

I like to ski, I like astronomy, I like rural living and children and animals and I love my wife. I'm not a complicated man, but I live on a very screwy planet, people wise. I am beset with a brain that comes up with outside-the-box observations, and ideas about improving things, and, if I have a "mission" in life, it is to share these, which typically show up after a good night's sleep.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Some say that our global climate changes are a result of a decreasing number of sunspots, not carbon pollution. For a review, try: http://www.aip.org/history/climate/solar.htm

Regardless of what is causing it, we will need power to desalinize water, power to air condition and to heat, transportation, etc.

Developing solar sources will soon be way more cost effective that harvesting oil from tar sands and fracking. Developing solar will be less polluting as well. And if the CO2 alarmist are right, helps solve the problem. Ironic that a nuke plant in Boston was shut down last night, unsafe to run in a blizzard?

Had a dream last night that included a perfect modern stroller, with the structural parts still plastic and nylon and aluminum, and the nylon shell replaced with most excellent woven basketry. Would make an interesting art piece, possibly a source of income to Nisenan descendants, who could make them for yuppie couples who have everything, and can afford a grand a pop?

Thursday, February 05, 2015

We need an amendment to the Constitution, that limits the total
"fees" bank institutions can charge to both parties in a transaction, to
1% combined, when the transaction requires only electronics to complete
the transfer.

Currently banks are raping this country, picking
up 2 to 4%, of every transaction they handle. It is completely insane
that we as a nation put up with this. The money saved to consumers would
put far more cash back into circulation than anyone can imagine.

The
cost to a bank for handling such transactions is miniscule, compared to
their current charges, and even 1% would be gifting them huge profits.

And
if the "Illegals" were all demanding vaccinations ( after coming here
to take the jobs Americans are effectively on strike for for higher
wages, pay $20/hour, and every crop in the country would be picked by
true blue Amuricuns), then Bill Orth would be screaming about freeloading the medical system. You want to guarantee every worker is an American, PAY UP!

You
want a job, get a national ID card, with biometrics. Roving
Verification Vans can be certain every employer can verify, and put yet
more Amuricuns to work, paid for by the tax paying public, not the
employers.

Problem
solved, it isn't rocket science, if indeed the 1% wanted it done. They
don't, they keep us in the dark ages, to get cheap laborers to cross
the borders, and to keep the rest of us barefoot and pregnant. Thanks a
lot, Overlords of 3rd World USA, a work in progress that is progressing
faster than any of us, including the Overlords, know.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

So politician McClintock is saying that for the cost of $3 more per hour per minimum wage worker, all kinds of jobs will simply disappear? Most places of employment have many other jobs which pay more, and a great deal of cash goes into increasing the owners equity, and McClintock things all these enterprises will just shut altogether down? I highly doubt that. Most owners will cut the salaries to others, and as a last resort will decrease the rate of increase in their own equity, rather than throw the entire enterprise away.

Tuesday, January 06, 2015

This is for all of you who are convinced chemtrails are a deliberate
attempt to do bad things to people. To me, there are enough of you by
now to easily pool your resources and do the experiment:

1. Rent or purchase an aircraft suitable for intercepting a chemtrail at a safe distance behind a jet creating it.

2. Secure permissions as needed to safely cross a chemtrail without
tipping off the authorities as to the true nature of your mission. HIgh
altitude parachuting, or some
scientific experiments that need to be conducted at the appropriate
altitude. Figure something out, and there are admittedly a lot of
details and bases to be covered here. Nobody said the FAA was simple.

3. Collect samples of the chemtrail "cloud."

4. Repeat at least 50 times, preferable 500.

5. Rent a second jet to capture some of the chemtrail your own jet creates.

6. Analyze all of the samples, and publish results
.
Once the basic science has been done, please get back to me.
Discussing cow farts in yonder field without real data from samples as
they exit the cow, is poor herdsmanship, and leads to completely
speculative ideas, without the necessary experimentation to prove your
points.

It's a baby step in the right direction, but I would redesign the entire transit system.

Powertrain,
suspension and steering, and computer autopilot need to be separate,
standardized units, in a variety of sizes and powers. You rent these
as needed.

Passenger cabs are owned by the consumer, and are detachable.

If
you want to go long distances. You get your cab loaded onto a flat car
on rails, enclosed tube for train optional. You zip to LA at 300mph
plus, solar powered train. You cab is then re-attached to another
powertrain combo. That can be electric or diesel or gas, depending on
your desires and pocket book.

40,000
die each year, many more maimed, incredible costs in dollars and
emotions. Only a mad species on a mad planet would keep this up for yet
another century.

Thursday, January 01, 2015

For
everyone who invests in the stock market and makes the right choices,
there is going to be another who works just as hard, makes very
carefully researched choices, and winds up losing it all, back to square
one. Not even Warren Buffet is precisely able to call the house on
that one. The big brokerages love to see that mythof little guy saves cash, invests, and makes it big, perpetuated, it
brings in more suckers to the table.

Now
I ask you, who in the game gets to see all the cards of enough of the
other players to make statistically accurate and useful predictions
about the other players future moves?

Who get to know in advance the future buys and sell of the other players?

Who
made certain that there are no taxes paid on the up to $40,000,000,000
bought and sold every single day? ( a .25/$100 bought/sold would go a
long way towards solving the national debt). They are also the
overseers of the fiction of "trading" rather than buying and selling,
which would make the tax target way more obvious.

Such
a tax would be the perfect "flat tax," which so many libertarians thin
would solve the world's ills. Rich and poor would pay at the same rate.

Yes
who indeed, other than the major richer than stink brokerages? They
could own it all, but that would make way too obvious what is going on.
They trout fish the pockets of the American middle and lower classes.

Yes
indeed the stock market might be better called the "stick market" and
unowho is the one getting stuck but good. BTW, even on the way down,
the big brokerages are smiling all the way to the banks. Is there a way
down due soon.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

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Seems both Rubio and Obama consider ISIS a tough nut to crack, and hint not too subtly that USA ground troops may be needed. They both state that a Big Problem with ISIS is that it is well funded with oil money, which they go right on selling on a daily basis.

During WWII, Operation Tidal Wave was unsuccessful, but at least it showed we knew what was important:

KNOCK OUT THE OIL SUPPLIES!

Given our knowledge of oil extraction and transport facilities, it should not be too hard to figure out what surgical strikes are needed to stop this source of revenue without completely destroying the components needed to rebuild after ISIS is no more. Why on earth should there be a hands off attitude on this ever so obvious target?

Is our goal is to knock out ISIS, but only if it can be done without jiggering with the world's oil supply too much? If so, American servicepeople should be notified of what they are fighting for, in this case The Seven Sisters, and allowed to opt out.

Massive solar installs within the USA would strike a blow to ISIS from which they would never recover. Simple simple, but not anything the Seven Sisters will support. Know your enemy, it ain't ISIS. If you look up just "The Seven Sisters" on Wikipedia, you have to scroll way down to find a reference to the book. If you add in Oil Companies, they know the jig is up, and that you already know what the reference means, and they do given you a bit, which is inaccurate, The term goes way back before the 1950's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_%28oil_companies%29

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

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you can't figure out how to drive safely and comfortably past cyclists
and all other persons, animals, and fallen trees, etc., you need to
either slow down, pay more attention to the road, or get a smaller,
narrower vehicle, or possibly all three. Thanks for all who have helped
me formulate this stand. Too bad it won't fit on a bumper sticker.

Our entire foreign policy is based of keeping the oil companies as necessary and integral parts of our transportation system and economy. They pay to lobby against the most logical way to make the Middle East a more civilized place in the long run. That way is to have the USA government make solar power into a complete replacement for our oil centric transportation system, be it socialized or subsidized by the tax payers capitalism. The citizens of the USA would get far more for their money in the long run via solar, and none would have to fight and die abroad, for the sake of the shareholders of the Seven Sisters, AKA, the Big Oil companies of the world.

The on-going wars for oil have resulted in the latest seemingly un-winnable situation, but I may have a partial solution:

Given that this is basically a guerrilla war situation, and we have failed hopelessly at using the solar option, I would propose the following technique to dispose of the fighters with as few civilian casualties as possible.

Drop
extra ammo on them, where every 100th, 50th, 10th, or so round explodes in the
chamber, using C4, to take out the user and anyone nearby.

To get this kind of ammo to them, there are several possible ways:

Have a group in an active firefight withdraw from the field, leaving behind ample supplies.

On an active battlefield, have small quad copter drones fly it in and leave it.

Send a boxcar from Aleppo to Ar Raqqah (ISIS HQ), also containing hundreds of small drones. Have those drones pre-flight instructed to go to hundreds of different sites around the city, in the dead of night, and then return to their boxcar post-flight.

In all cases, it would be best to find out if there is any standard packaging that the ISIS fighters are accustomed to, and to use it.

This could also be done with larger artillery shells, but in that case, make each and every one be a C4 packed shell.

One other thing, when the C4 goes off, it also releases a dye, that contaminates all the remaining shell in the vicinity, so that should a friendly fighter, Peshmerga or who ever, will not use them, and it will aid in the careful handling of such shells for disposal, afterwards.

In short order the scene in ISIS would become one of: "Sarge, are you sure this ammo is OK?" "yeah, go ahead, use it." KABOOM! The chain of command would become very much so distrusted, and at least one less fighter and one less rifle, or artillery piece, with each successful hit.

The oil companies will never allow this to be implemented, as I would agree with many, keeping the average American scared, is their goal, so that "bidness" selling oil Texas style, can continue as usual. I will again remind folks that one nuke placed in Galveston Bay will knock out 25% of USA refining capacity, and thus do major damage to our infra-structure, and that national security, if taken seriously, demands we decentralize our dependence on oil for our transportation needs.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

On Nevada County Vents I was asked how I would stop the killings, Sandy Hook and Santa Barbara.

Outlined
it before, but here you go again.

Want to buy a gun? You get a
thorough background check, and you post a bond, equal to at least 1/2
the value of the weapon.

After a year goes by, you have 6 months to go
to a bombproof drive through, put your guns in a drawer, the guns are whisked inside, the serial numbers are checked against the sale photos, a
test bullet is fired and saved. You get your guns back.

If you don't
have them, the government keeps the bond, and you are not allowed to buy
another gun for five years. If you can't afford the 1/2 the cost,
there will be plenty of insurance companies willing to step in and help
out, for a fee of course.

Now here's my latest wrinkle. Before you can
buy a gun, you have to get three people who have known you for over 1
year to declare to the government that you are not likely to be or go
nuts. Just three people, mind you. If they turn out to be wrong, 50%
of any tax refund due to each one of them, will be deducted next IRS
time. Wrong would include anything that involves illegal activity and
your weapon. (losing it, anyone shot with it (including yourself) etc.

If you lose your weapon to a documented theft from your premises, this bond loss
does not occur. Documented theft would include before pictures of
secured to building gun safe, and guns in the safe, and then either the
damage done to the structure or if it is still there, the remains of the
safe. You must notified the local sheriff within 48 hours if such a
break-in occurs. Obviously you can rig an alarm that notifies you over
the internet.

In short, you can keep all the guns you want, but you've
got to have others to vouch for your sanity, and you have to keep them
secure.

In time, crime committed with guns can be quickly traced to the
owner, and to the locality where a theft may have occurred. Owners
will have a much greater chance of getting their guns back if the
thieves are caught for anything, even if they file off the serial
numbers. Remember the test round? That provides the ID that gets your
gun returned to you. I assume you have no problem with that aspect of
things. BTW you did ask how, so here is my answer.

Test rounds do not work for shotguns, sorry about that.

A few notes that cropped up:

Jennifer OlsonDoug, are you trying to change his beliefs or are you trying to be right ?

Davi RodriguesDouglas,
I commend you on devising a plan. It is, unworkable and
unconstitutional though. Putting up a bond just to exercise a
constitutional right? that would be struck down like the poll tax. The
poor couldn't afford to have a right. The three wise men
to sign for you is another failure. This is a fundamental right
douglas. Fundamental rights do not hinge upon your knowing 3 people that
would lose out if you failed somehow.

Douglas KeachieWe
The People is supposed to mean something. We do not stand as
individuals in the bleeping wilderness, we bond and know one another, at
least within small groups. Are you telling me you don't have three
people who can stick their necks out for you? Well T.S. Elliot, learn
to be a little more social before we give you a deadly weapon with REACH
well beyond you mind, apparently.

Jennifer OlsonYou just have a stronger stomach than me Douglas
, I understand what you are saying and it is maddening to me that
others don't . When it becomes emotional I no longer find myself being
rational I find myself being defensive because it is maddening .. ...See More

Douglas KeachieA
society has to protect itself from within its members. Using shrinks
is maybe ok for some obvious defects, but just as we have 12 of our
peers on a jury, to decide all kinds of things about our "fundamental
rights," so then can we round up three fri...See More

Douglas KeachieThat's
exactly right! Of course, they might like you to co-sign for them. So
it shouldn't be that hard, and also would let you know who your friends
really are. This is getting delicious!

Jennifer OlsonAgreed
Ae.. Stepping away from this debate .. Sleep sounds like a much better
option . I find myself thinking of loss not politics. Sad indeed.
Finding nothing at all "delicious" about this topic